Today I looked up glinner

[mintyroller]

Because I don't look at Twitter all that often. I look up glinner to see what he's been writing lately. I found a few accounts mentioning him in their username, looked at one and the description was as you would expect, pronouns and all that jazz. Clicked on the tweets tab (I use a third party app, not the official app) and lo and behold I've been blocked. I have never written anything remotely GC on Twitter, in fact my tweets are private, but I've been blocked presumably sheerly on the basis of following glinner. I know this is no real news to any of you who are actively GC on here or twitter but it's insane, is it not? Blocked by virtue of whom I follow when I've written nothing. It's as if they can't hack even the possibility of criticism eh?

mintyroller
A lot of them are using a "terf blocker", ie a mass block list for anyone who says anything remotely critical, or even asks a question like, define woman, or as you've found out anyone who follows anyone else who is on their blocker. So they are pretty much an echo chamber.

"So they are pretty much an echo chamber."

Quite. Blocking folk on the basis of following folk they disagree with is sheltering themselves from anyone with any dissension at all, even if there is the possibility that some folk may just follow glinner cos they love his comedy.

I checked the terf blocker a while back and I wasn't listed then but evidently I am now.

Yes, it's a terfblocker or similar. They write code to block all the followers of people they don't like.

I was added to it before I'd ever tweeted anything gc - but just for following Miranda Yardley (who has since been banned hmm] )

I think I'm on nine different blocklists now

And I'm deboosted.

yep, following and liking GC accounts gets you a blocking, I’m pretty sure I’ve been muted by a few people as well, even though I’m not vocal.

I’ve heard there’s a block list called “cult blocker pro” which blocks TRAs too. I think it’s even bigger than “terf blocker?

I was blocked before I had even heard of Glinner, even before I had ever tweeted a single word. Often the blocklist is based on who you follow.

I don't think so, RedHoodGirl

Cultblocker currently locke around 15k accounts. I don't subscribe it. But it's here: cultblockerpro.wordpress.com/mentions/cultblockerpro/

Terfblocker (which is just one of them) currently blocks over 73K. blocktogether.org/show-blocks/iahP9jg-8sFK9Q1V-FIxXN8zkPkIhFpiZ1lcZOO1

I'm blocked by someone on the terfblocker that zebras posted. If they're a terven type and I am too, why would they block me? 🙄

The terfblocker blocks terfs, Closdes. Culblocker blocks tras.

It can be amusing to glance down the names on terfblocker. I wonder what the account "Midwest Moving Company LLC" did to fall foul of them?

I think Mothercare were on there too - the terves.

History Lovers is on there Bloody history terfs.

The actual verified Michelle Obama is on there.... we're in good company cheers Michelle, you bloody terf

It does have shades of book burning. Disallowing incorrect speech and thought.

I've lost the screenshot but terfblocker has said that if you even follow a 'terf' on their list then you're liable to be blocked.
Presumably that means that once they block you, all your followers are liable to be blocked, then their followers and so on.
Won't be long before everyone on twitter is blocked.

Can someone explain deboosted please; I've tried and failed to get that concept.

I put my twitter into some sort of check page and it didn't recognise it as a twitter

Does it really matter if they block you? It isn't as if anyone sees the light as a result of reading the tweets of someone they disagree with. Most Twitter users just get angry and self-righteous when confronted with the views of people outside their bubble.
If TRAs choose to sanitise their timeline by blocking those who disagree with them then, meh, lower blood pressure all round. Social media interactions have only ever made the conflicts around transgender more severe not less.

I never tweet anything GC with my main Twitter account, but I do follow some GC feminists including Glinner. I'm blocked by a load of people I've never heard of. Occasionally someone I have heard of (like Transgiant) will block me despite me never once having interacted with them. It's all a bit strange, and reflects their militant, cultlike thinking.

It isn't book burning or disallowing speech. It is just people choosing who to talk and listen to. Not particularly constructive, but only an exaggeration of the bubble effect that Twitter creates for all of us.

I do follow Glinner, and like and retweet his posts from time to time. I also sometimes tweet GC stuff. I'm not aware of having been blocked by anyone. I'm not sure how I would find out unless I actively jumped into the TRA Twitterpool to see whose tweets I could see!

I tweeted something GC the other day that got a lot of attention (by my feeble standards) from both approvers and disapprovers of it.

All the disapproving comments to my tweet were more or less civilised. It's important not to get so hung up on the ugly extremes that we forget the mass of people that disagree in a more normal way.

I’ve never tweeted anything GC either (I barely use twitter at all) but one day I clicked on a Mumsnet link to Jess Bradley’s profile and found I was blocked 🤷‍♀️

It’s McCarthyism 2019 edition - guilt by association is now guilt by who you follow on Twitter (see the JK Rowling-Magdalen Berns episode as an example).

people choosing who to talk and listen to.

It's just as much about not allowing the other person to read your tweets. You can mute people you don't want to listen to, without the offensiveness of blocking them.

I think if you like or retweet the "wrong" tweets or follow the "wrong" people you get listed as a terf and swerf by association. I was blocked by a bunch of people I'd never heard of a long time ago and I mostly just like and retweet stuff. It is annoying when the thread you're reading is full of holes.

I switch to incognito mode nowadays if I really want to read something

This same blocking procedure works against some sane old school transsexuals who speak out on Twitter. They are blocked without ever interacting with individuals.

Public trans activists seem to use this tactic. Even India Willoughby, for instance, despite supporting Piers Morgan this week, has blocked other transsexuals who oppose self ID and trans women are women mantra. Presumably simply by way of a list.

This makes discussion on Twitter very unbalanced, especially as transsexuals also get mass reported for 'transphobia' (as in not following TRA demands).

Transsexuals who transitioned surgically decades ago get blocked and even banned from Twitter by mass reporting via spotty youths who transitioned last week just by declaring their new mandatory pronouns.

Aside from being Monty Python like ridiculous this is clearly intended to control the debate.

So much of which comes over as driven by male anger and privilege. Certainly not willingness to openly discuss serious issues.

I have also been put in terfblocker because of who I follow.

Amee Challenor and child-rapist Dad set up terfblocker did they not ?